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Marietta City Council authorized the creation of a part-time clerk in the fight against blight Thursday, with the caveat that the adoption was a “baby step.”
“I am not willing to commit the city to spending money on another city employee without knowing if any of the issues that we are experiencing in the department would be solved by adding this position. And that justification has not occurred,” said the chairwoman of the Employee Relations Committee, Council Member Cassidi Shoaf.
Shoaf’s fellow committee and council members Susan Boyer and Bill Farnsworth brought the ordinance forward at the close of 2020 and Thursday hosted the third reading of Ordinance 165 creating a part-time clerk position within the city’s code enforcement office, now named property maintenance office.
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Marietta City Council will consider one item of old business and 10 of new business today in its second regular business meeting of the month.
The position of a part-time clerk in the Department of Property Maintenance solely for the year 2021 (a trial-year, per past council committee discussions) is up for a vote today to serve alongside the city’s code enforcement official.
The pay scale and expected duties for such a new position have been a topic of frequent debate in Employee Relations Committee leading up to today and are the reason that the legislation was not introduced by that committee’s chairwoman, Councilwoman Cassidi Shoaf, R, at-large.
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Photos courtesy of the Special Collections of the Marietta College Legacy Library.
On March 2, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to a crowd of 3,000 at Marietta College. The title of his speech was “The Future of Integration,” and he called on the government to address the issues of poverty and housing. The original recording of King’s lecture is preserved in Special Collections.
The man would have been 92 years old on Friday.
But 54 years ago this coming April, he was assassinated.
Three days later, more than 400 Marietta residents and Marietta College students silently marched from Dawes Library at 1:30 p.m. and walked four abreast from Fifth Street to Putnam, down Putnam Street to East Muskingum Park.
Phyllis Mae Uhl Fisher, 88 of New Concord
Phyllis Mae Uhl Fisher, 88, of New Concord, Ohio. We are saddened to share the passing of our beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother on December 15, 2020. She left us peacefully while in the care of the staff at Continuing Care Beckett House, New Concord.
Phyllis is survived by her devoted husband, William Fisher of New Concord. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Daniel Z. Fisher and Leona (Swank) Fisher of Westerville, Ohio; Granddaughter Katie (Fisher) Merendo and Carl Merendo of Hilliard, Ohio; Grandson Andrew Fisher of Boise, Idaho; Great Granddaughters Elly Fisher and Louise Merendo. Phyllis is preceded in death by her parents, William and Mabelle (Truax) Uhl.
East Muskingum board hears funding plan
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NEW CONCORD East Muskingum Local Board of Education met briefly on Thursday.
Superintendent Dave Adams said the Fair School Funding Plan has passed the House 87-8 but in all likelihood it will not be heard by the Senate in this General Assembly.
This originated as the Cupp-Patterson plan last year with strong bipartisan support. East Muskingum Schools along with all public districts in Ohio are very much in favor of a fair and predictable school funding formula, Adams said. We are optimistic that this will be included in the upcoming biennial budget.